Teapot
“This teapot sure had many different
parts for the light to shine.”
- Gerardo Martinez
This is a value drawing made in Adobe Illustrator. It
is a value of drawing of a teapot. While observing the
teapot, first I made a one hundred line drawing of the
teapot to form the base structure of the teapot. Then,
I used a lamp that I shined on the teapot as the light
source in the drawing. Because the light is shining
from the right, I began with the lightest shade of gray
on the right sides of the teapot. While observing the
teapot again but now with the source shining on it, I
drew a series of x’s on the teapot with the selected gray
color shade to carefully form each levels of darks and
lights accurately. Also, I focused on the different parts
of the cup that formed their own levels of value such
as the handle, spout and area around the top where the
missing lid would be located.
The idea of the value drawing is to practice my skill to
seperate the different values of light and darks formed
on an object by a light source and shade in each level accurately. I believe my skills of making a value
drawing has improved based on the comparison of this
value drawing to the glass cup value drawing.
I want the audience to determine where the light
source is located and the object being illuminated is a
teapot. Also, I want the audience to see how I drew the
values of the teapot based on the shadings I made on
the cup in the light source and how I have improved on
making value drawings based on the comparison of the
teapot drawing to the glass cup drawing.
10 - Uncanny Subjects
A value drawing of a teapot with a light source
shining on the teapot.
Uncanny Subjects - 11